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I subscribed to TPJ one issue before they went kaput a while back. Then that was replaced by a subscription to sysadmin magazine... sort of -- I think I got 3 issues, but no big deal because I already had a subscription to sysadmin at work, and then I got the joyous load of crap 'tpj' tacked onto the end of sysadmin for a few issues. 3 articles at the end of some other magazine is _not_ the TPJ I had grown to love.

So now I'm supposed to shell out $12 for another year? I probably will, but would like to see

Professional attractive layout and very good production values. It's one of the nicest PDF's newsletters I've ever seen. Borrow your friends color duplex printer to do it justice.

Interesting content. I agree with the previous poster that brian d foy's article on "Better Documentation Through Testing" was the most interesting of the bunch.

Mostly free of advertising. I'm guessing that the TPJ folks would probably not find this to be a feature, but I've never gotten much out of the ads personally.

Cons:

Short articles. The articles should have been a bit longer and more filled out. The code walk throughs were nearly missing or relatively light for most of the articles.

Only four articles. A third of the 27 pages were the same source code being printed twice. The volume of real content will need to double before I feel like it's worth all the grief we've been through with SysAdmin.

TPJ is a big legacy to live up to and the new crew seems to be well on their way to reviving that bright light in our Perliverse. I'm mostly reassured.

Icky typography. Spefically, the "fi" ligatures and "smart" quotes in inline code samples and boxes (though listings appear to be fine, for some reason).

This kind of thing is a pet peeve of mine (the German version of PC Magazine gets this wrong all the time as well) -- please, people, if you're going to publish a journal that contains code, get an editor (or whoever is responsible for making sure things look right) who will ensure that code samples contain no ligatures, no "smart" quotes (unl